Adrianne Appel

Kaiser Health affiliates have agreed to pay more than $556 million to settle allegations originally made by whistleblowers that they ignored compliance department warnings and unlawfully reworked diagnoses for Medicare patients in order to receive higher payments from the federal government.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dropped its case against Rio Tinto’s former chief financial officer, who has battled charges for eight years.

The owner of a medical supply company allegedly billed federal health programs $30 million for items that were unnecessary and tainted by kickbacks, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

A former TD Bank assistant branch manager in New York was instrumental in helping a $653 million drug money laundering operation, known as “David’s Network,” wash dirty money through the bank, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

Teledyne will pay more than $1.5 million to settle allegations it supplied electronic parts to the Navy that deviated from specifications, a violation of the False Claims Act (FCA). But its cooperation with prosecutors earned it a credit, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

An industrial products distributor has agreed to pay $54.4 million to settle allegations, first made by a whistleblower, that it evaded tariffs and violated the federal False Claims Act.

The chief operating officer of a plastic resin importer has pleaded guilty to intentionally falsifying documents to avoid paying tariffs on goods from China, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.

Federal investigators have announced progress in dismantling an online criminal operation that steals bank account information by mimicking legitimate bank websites.